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8100 – Dang it, is it only Tuesday?

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GeotargetIt’s illegal to annoy

A new federal law states that when you annoy someone on the Internet, you must disclose your identity. Here’s the relevant language.

“Whoever…utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet… without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person…who receives the communications…shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”

Hmm… I wonder how enforceable this is, and how it’ll change the face of the internet? Telephone use? Talk Radio?

The answer to my ESP poll was Wavy Lines. I suspect there may’ve been some circle after image bleed over due to the moon-talk and icon. Very interesting… most people knew that I’d go with wavy lines. Fully 40% of people answering got it right, as well as 33% getting the circle vibe. Spiffy that folks know me that well, give a one in five chance to get it right.

Let’s try it again – I’m looking at an image, and focusing on it… which one is it?

ESPdeck

The problem with LJ:

We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don’t know about you.

Thanks Ilene for the two icons!

Superkitty red and superkitty blue!

Keywords: superkitty – red – via ilenebook – happy kitty

Keywords: superkitty – blue – via ilenebook – mad/sad kitty!

Yahoo acquired Webjay! Is Google and Y! and MS buying everything these days?

meme, a la eryx_uk

Here’s what you are supposed to do: Copy (not forward) this entire meme and paste it onto your journal. Change all of the answers so they apply to you.
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8099 – Walkabout thoughts.

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GeotargetI sometimes look at roads, and wonder where they came from. Before they were paved… were they cobblestone? Before that, a dirt road? Before that, a Indian path in the woods? Before that, some animal tracks?

Is the patch of Federal Highway that I ride down, curving a little inland and a little closer to the coast now and then every day the result of some deer running through high grasses to avoid a panther?

bigfootsmall

Gamera’s Travel Journal – (Knowing Japanese will help here) Aww… I want a plush Gamera!

Of course! Why didn’t I think to get my grappling hook on Amazon? Good thinking, oneeyedcat!

The Mighty Boosh, Series 1, Episode 7 – Electro – via google video

Not my fave episode, but the spirit of jazz makes me happy.

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8098 – Andy in lockup. Let’s see how he likes it.

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Bro’s pal Andy was arrested today. He’s under wraps until September 26 for that grand theft charge and “resisting a merchant”… I’ll have to look that one up.

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See mugshot gallery to compare, or entries on 2/24/04, 2/25/04, 11/21/04, 1/30/05, 6/7/05, somewhere in 7/2005, 8/3/05.

I really hope that means bro will keep his nose clean for a little while.

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8096- We’re Ants! I Must SLEEP!

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8096- Originally uploaded by scottobear.

Geotarget“We’re Ants!” guy is trying to sleep in the back, but is scrunching up his eyes so much and sitting so stiffly that it seems more like he’s avoiding horror than getting any rest. He appears to be wrapping himself pretty tightly.

Woman eating an egg and bacon sandwich, the meat is rubbery, she pulls on it, stretching until it breaks, snapping into her mouth. I get a distinct hyena/carrion vibe.

sent via palmtop

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8095 – Spidah-san

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GeotargetUgh… Monday already? Monday work meeting and then a dog & pony for FDLE at 10.

Holy cow… why did I not know until yesterday that there was a live action Toei Spider-man TV show in Japan (Circa 1978), where he apparently had a neato motorcycle, instant change suit wristband (a-la the flash’s ring), could talk to spiders, and had control over a giant robot? I guess it makes sense, since he was a gadgeteer, (building webshooters and spidey-tracker, anyhow)… In Japan, I think that if you can wire up a tesla coil, you can have a giant robot. Spidey’s Opening Title on youtube -and a short but entertaining clip from the show… I need someone to translate either the Japanese, or the Spanish Subtitles. Graypumpkin, maybe? The Toei version looks a lot more entertaining than the lame American live-action version.

Toei spidey team up with machine gun mariachi – the awesome
Toei spidey – ninder scenes – uses webbing as a noose.

More video clips here – just search youtube for Toei Spiderman

From the same guy that has me singing the dang Iron Man theme again. (the cool 1966 version, not the longhair rock star 1996 one.)

Hey, there’s an Ambush Bug for Heroclix! A shame I really stopped playing a year or two ago. That’s the first one that would have me actively seeking it out (now if they got a Morrison Doom Patrol collection out, I’d be stoked, too)

Moment of Lyric: (Mp3)
There was a boy who knew he could be anything that he wanted to.
Everybody told him he had a singular special destiny.
Everybody said he’d go far–everybody said he’d be a star.
They said he could be anything he wanted to be–then he turned into me.
Now it seems increasingly unlikely that I’m gonna grow up to be Luke Skywalker–not gonna be Indiana Jones.
And after all this time it’s probably not gonna turn out that I’m the super-powered heir to a world that isn’t there anymore.
But somebody told me I was special.
Somebody told me that I could be anything I wanted to be.
How could they have known the dreams I had were not the dreams they had for me?
They said I could be what I wanted–they had no idea what I wanted.
And I don’t mean to seem ungrateful for all their encouragement and praise.
I just meant to say that I don’t intend to stay and spend another wasted year, cause at the end I bet I’d still be sitting here wasting time and waiting.
I’m waiting for my Lady of the Lake to come and crown me king.
I’m waiting for my rocket to land so I can get my power ring.
I’m waiting for my radioactive meteorite to fall.
I’m waiting but I ain’t got no meteorite at all.
I’m waiting for my story to begin.
I’m waiting for my/ I’m not done.
Don’t count me out of it–my story isn’t over yet.
I’m not the son of some roman god but anyway I think I’m gonna be okay.
And looking back I find it seems I’ve always had unlikely dreams but I can’t let that stop me now, it’s time to grow up anyhow.
And I may not be Hercules but here’s my new philosophy: buh buh bah buh buh bah buh bah buh buh
end of song.

1 year ago – Mel’s fingernail falls off, we surf the web, 3.6 million nickels stolen, distance home meme, quarter bin craving, monkeys & crackers, happy feet

2 years ago – dynamic address assigning, Artist under the influence of LSD, My Messy Office

3 years ago – prisoner on the brain, Names, Antarctica, EO-letters

4 years ago – paper models, walkies, coming events, EO-mashnote

5 years ago – paranoia, recorder, odigo

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8093 – bike-about and the Hoff quiz

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GeotargetUnsurprisingly, bro bailed on us getting together today, but I was still determined bike around the region, heading north this time.

I walked my bike to the gas station on 10th & federal, aired up the long-flat tires, rode east to the beach, north on a1a to palmetto park, went west to federal, and then south to 10th. a nice, scenic circuit, but I was too busy enjoying the ride in the cool weather to take many pics. 14.4 miles, total route (I doubled back a few time s to check the bike shop, and rode up Dixie to see what was new. I picked up some cool stuff at the art store which was having an insane blowout sale… one of those foot-tall wooden manikins for drawing bodies for $4, a thick pad full of 12 x 18″ newsprint paper for doodling on for $0.75, and a couple of graphite pencils for a buck. it was all 20% off those prices, too, so I got a lot of fun loot for less than what lunch would’ve cost me out. I wonder if Newt’ll mangle the wooden guy… the manikin is similar to the wooden Christmas tree ornaments that Newt loves to smack around.

Geotarget3602 calories burned if I was walking… I wonder what that translates to in cycling? Probably not nearly as much.

Here’s my route 14.4 miles, give or take.

bike-about Sunday morning
Wings place – still hasn’t repaired the impaled sign since Wilma.

bike-about Sunday morning
Island Water Sports – Contrary to the prior image, they wanted a giant shark head first in the roof. By the way, on the inside, there is a giant shark head coming through the ceiling, too.

bike-about Sunday morning
I *think* that this is the Boca chamber of commerce, but I’m not sure. I really like the curvy divot on the side, slicing some of the windows.

Knight Rider Hasselhoff

You are Knight Rider Hasselhoff. You kick ass, you’re dead sexy, AND you are the proud owner (or perhaps life partner) of a talking black Trans-Am. What else could one ask for?

WHICH HOFF ARE YOU? at QuizGalaxy.com

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8092 – Time to row the ocean, I think.

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GeotargetLetterman 1 – O’Reilly 0

“I have the feeling that 60% of what you say is crap…” and with that Dave Letterman captured the essence of what is Bill O’Reilly. (via onegoodmove thanks firpo for putting me on to that site)

Letterman gets in quite a few good shots in the video.

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Moment of Lyric (swf video)

Lying in the corner of a room with a stick in my hand
I’m pointing my stick at a far away land
My stick it has no leaves it grieves me to say
I’m gonna find a new stick then I’ll be, I’ll be on my way

I want to row you across the ocean so blue
Till we find the man
Who kissed all the women in Japan

Old women with no face trying to call out my name
Screaming she’s just been stabbed by a
Chargrilled accountant from Spain
Would you like to dance with me
She whispers from three miles away
We could dance the tango the I’ll be,
Oh I will be on my way

I want to row you across the ocean so blue
Until we find the man
Who drowned all the children in Iran

Which Clue character are you?

I wonder how many people in the world worship the moon… actively pray and give offerings?

firefly crew quiz

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8091 – vortiginous entry

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GeotargetRS thinks that I have some big secret plans for the weekend, I think because I let her go on about her weekend plans and whatnot, and then we got to talking about something else. Nope, nothing special planned… just sleeping in and lingering around the neighborhood, doing more walkies if I can. No glamorous binges on booze and loose women, just a nice weekend out and about.

FDLE coming by the office on Monday morning, FBI Tuesday, and who knows what Wednesday will bring? Maybe big brain, ha-ha? I’m glad that HP has been as patient with me as possible.

I was so beat last night that I fell asleep at 8:30… woke up at 4ish am as a result. I suspect my weekend might be a little out of whack as a result. A bit too brisk out for a swim in the pool… maybe after the sun rises.

I find it amazing that my electric bill for the new one bedroom is less than my old studio… the old place must’ve not been very well weather sealed. $70 is almost a third less than what I paid last January. Also, automatic billpay is beautiful. I just get an email a week before it’s paid, so I can update my records, and hey, presto!

Laser pointer is nifty in the early morning fog… the line goes on for a huge distance.

Dopey dreams of work last night…I don’t much like it when the daily mundane starts stepping on areas that usually allow for people being changed into modular string bean / sabre-toothed tiger stereo components. Most of the drama that I was expecting to happen didn’t occur yesterday, so maybe that was why it was pressing on the brain. Next Friday will be considerably different, and I expect the company to have some drastic changes in one way or another by February.

May be getting together with Bro tomorrow, if plans stay on track. I think a beach walk is in order, or maybe a bike trip.

word of the day: fabiform – shaped like a bean

Speaking of words, I never seem to get a good opportunity to use the term “vortex”. (not to mention – vortical, vorticose, vorticular or vortiginous) Like kissing a woman’s hand, it’s either too much, or not enough.

Windows update now has an official security patch for the wmf vulnerability…update your system normally, and you’ll no longer need that patch posted earlier. To delete the old patch, go to the control panel, add/remove programs – It will be in the list of installed programs as “Windows WMFMetafile Vulnerability HotFix”. click on change/remove, and once it’s out, reboot. all done!

Those Yahoo ads are earning about $0.56 a day lately, down from an overall average of about $2.69 a day. (one insane day 12/15 that got nuts threw off the average.. $19.68) .. but most days haven’t broken a dollar. Upside, there has only been one day when *nothing* was earned since I started hosting them. That plus the $50 flat I get each month from my static front page linkies every month makes for a nice charity lump sum base.

1 year ago – pics of Danny and I playing pirates at twistyland, sickly mel, hippo and tortoise are pals, how infectious are dead bodies

2 years ago – Goodies, bad phone, long meeting

3 years ago – waiting for doc, HMOs suck, Autopsy, memories

4 years ago – freesco, horkey my arm, make smudges, culture bound syndromes, stinky, live in the present, salt sticks

5 years ago – vagg, movies, napster

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8089 – Friday at last!

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GeotargetCompUSA called me today, apologizing profusely. He said that it was still on back order, but it will take between one and two *MORE* weeks to arrive. I asked him what could be done to expedite things, and he responded that he was very sorry, but really nothing.. that they didn’t even have a loaner machine to let me chew on while I dealt with things. I’m really pretty exasperated at the whole situation.

Today at work, there will be a few confrontations, and I’m not part of any of them. I suspect they may turn ugly. Detail to follow tomorrow or Monday, no doubt.

R.I.P. Chuck Zink

I remember watching the Skipper Chuck show right before school. There isn’t a Floridian who was a kid between 1959 and 1979 who doesn’t remember Chuck Zink and his show. It was truly part of South Florida, and Mr. Zink will be sorely missed. I encountered his show when my family was living in Marathon. Thank you Mr. Zink for doing your part in making our world a better place. Peace, Love and Happiness to you on your journey.

I don’t know a lot of Florida Natives… Kat and Kev are the only two folks I can think of off of the top of my head who might remember the show.

Brrrr….at least for Florida

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8087 – Another success for us!

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GeotargetWell, as a direct result of my calls, Tabitha Lively was recovered safely in Orlando. Pretty keen.. that makes 132 recoveries in the last 46 months that are a direct result of my gig here.

The US Marshalls were very cool to work with, and FDLE was really on the ball, too (as usual). The Marshalls are up there with the FBI as far as professionalism.

I’ve already been interviewed by 3 news agencies regarding the story, and the big kahuna is loving the media attention she’s getting… Maybe this will keep her sourpuss attitude to a minumum the rest of this week. I’m just glad that I wore one of my nice new shirts to work… I’ll be interested in seeing how many errors the different agencies make in reporting… so far, I’ve never, ever seen an article get everything right with a story that I was aware of outside of the news agency.

Google News search for case info

Regular google info